Casey Jones (TV series)
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| Genre | Western |
| Written by | Bill Barrett John K. Butler Lee Erwin Stephen Longstreet Frank L. Moss |
| Directed by | Abby Berlin George Blair Lew Landers |
| Starring |
Alan Hale Jr. Dub Taylor Bobby Clark Mary Lawrence Eddy Waller |
| Opening theme | "The Ballad of Casey Jones" |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 32 |
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| Producer(s) |
Samuel Bischoff Kenneth Gamet Harold Greene |
| Cinematography | Ray Cory Irving Lippman |
| Editor(s) | Jack Ogilvie Joseph Silver |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Briskin Productions Screen Gems |
| Distributor |
Colex Enterprises LBS Communications Columbia Pictures Television Columbia TriStar Television Sony Pictures Television |
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| Original network | Syndication |
| Picture format | Black-and-white |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | October 8, 1957 – May 5, 1958 |
Casey Jones is an American Western series that ran during the 1957-1958 television season, based around the pioneering western railroads. The series aired in syndication in the United States. Casey Jones aired on the BBC in the United Kingdom and on the Seven Network in Australia.
The series is set in the late 19th century, featuring the adventures of railroad engineer Casey Jones and the crew of the Cannonball Express steam locomotive, fireman Wallie Sims and conductor Redrock Smith, working for the Midwest and Central Railroad. Casey lived in Midvale, a fictional town within commuting distance of St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife, Alice, their young son, Casey, Jr., and their dog Cinders. Although there really was a famous locomotive engineer named Casey Jones of the Illinois Central, the television series is only very loosely based on him. However, it uses the real names of his train, the Cannonball Express. The name of the character Wallie Sims is a conflation of Illinois Central employee Wallace Saunders, who wrote the earliest version of The Ballad of Casey Jones, and the real Jones' fireman, Simeon "Sim" Webb. Unlike Wallie Sims, both Saunders and Webb were African-American.
Kenneth Gamet, the producer of Casey Jones, offers a gentler Western series against the more violent adult shows of the time. Casey Jones features the same classical types of plots as other westerns such as train robbers and vandals, but the episodes center as much on Casey's interaction with his family, particularly Casey, Jr.
Commissioned by Los Angeles television station KTTV, it was shot on a special set at Ray "Crash" Corrigan's studio Corriganville in the Simi Valley, California.
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